NVRLAND

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It was absolutely terrible here in Houston during the hurricane! Thank God my house is higher up and didn't get affected by the flooding waters overflowing on the roads and creeks. Water has finally started to go down where the roads are able to be seen again.

Dallasguy1

Yeah can't help notice the GS my friend who does buy salvage cars and I do notice there are soo many flood damage cars from Houston area in the normal days after the flood I'm sure the auction will be flooded with these cars once it all settle down.

2Squared

Not me, my GS has been in the garage from Thursday afternoon to yesterday afternoon. At worst during the storm the street in front of my house had 5 inches of water, we received 32 inches of rain so the drainage worked great.

This being said feel for all of those who have been affected by this storm. Just 5 miles from me people have been flooded out.

ECL

The better question is,"How many water damaged cars will be flooding (!) the market in a couple of months?" Obviously the human suffering is the bigger issue, though.

jtrue28

Okay, maybe I'm missing something, but the GS in the first picture isn't that badly underwater. Can they not find some stronger guys to help push it out of the water there? Grief.

--prayers sent to everyone in Houston.

Im2bz2p345

Really tragic to see what happened in Houston. I personally had plenty of friends & family that were affected, but nothing to the point of being life threatening or having to relocate.

This begs the question of just how high of water will be dangerous for our cars. Obviously not taking a risk with driving our vehicle through water any height would be best, but I know of many areas in the Houston & San Antonio that even with consistent heavy rainfall for many hours, will start to have standing water. I'm sure there other cities across that U.S. that are more prone to slight flooding or standing water with heavy amounts of rain.

From my research, the air intake is usually the point in the most standard vehicles where you don't want to exceed. Our intake is in our engine bay.. so not saying that I would take my card in water that high, but what else would cause issues?

More of a curiosity question than anything,

~ Im2bz2p345

er34

For what it's worth, all it took was a "splash of water" to hydrolock a C63S AMG engine and the repair bill was 78k just for a new engine(car was totalled).


It's not just the depth of the standing water. When you're plowing through water, the water level naturally rises in front of your bumper as it resists your car's motion.

Im2bz2p345

Very interesting e34. Who would have just water splashing from another car could cause the water to take in so much water? You would think car manufacturers would better protect the air intake and have some safety sensors to protect the engine incase ANY fluid goes up the intake.

Thanks for sharing that video.

~ Im2bz2p345

lamikela1

Wasn't me. I did take mine out but only to park it in a high rise garage in Sugar Land. We had over 36 inches of rain in my area and lucked out as we had no damage to our home. We can't move the house but we can move the car!!! We also have a Tacoma pickup so we had transportation if it was needed.

I saw the news report on that car in the OP's post and although it was not in really high water there were a lot of vehicles running by it pretty fast and making waves that were up to a foot or so higher. I am sure that it was flooded. I feel for that person.

e60bmw

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A massive amount, I can't even imagine how many cars alone got flooded, they said over 40k home got destroyed alone. Easily 100k+ cars I bet.

HPLouis

My God.....